Interstellar comet 2I — Borisov swings past sun
Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA) When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Newfound Martian aurora actually the most common; sheds light on Mars’ changing climate
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center A type of Martian aurora first identified by NASA's MAVEN spacecraft in 2016 is ...
Martian aurora offers climate change clues, Embry-Riddle reports
NASA, University of Colorado Boulder, Embry-Riddle present findings at AGUCredit: Embry-Riddle/Daryl LaBello SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - A newly published study, ...
NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon
Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Brendan Gallagher and Guillermo Stenborg) WASHINGTON - A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on ...
NSF grants Illinois-led team $4.4 million to develop distributed space telescope
Credit: Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign More than 91 million miles from Earth, the sun poses a ...
ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), C.M. Casey et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted ...
Water common — yet scarce — in exoplanets
Credit: Amanda Smith The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge ...
New aluminium hydroxide stable at extremely high pressure
Credit: Ehime Univeristy Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and it plays important roles in the structure, ...
Russian astrophysicists discovered a neutron star with an unusual magnetic field structure
Credit: @tsarcyanide, MIPT Press Office Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy ...
How planets may form after dust sticks together
Scientists may have figured out the origins of planetsCredit: Gerhard Wurm, Tobias Steinpilz, Jens Teiser and Felix Jungmann Scientists may ...
Scientists find further evidence for a population of dark matter deficient dwarf galaxies
Credit: NAOC Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), Peking University and Tsinghua University ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission explains Bennu’s mysterious particle events
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Shortly after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission's ...
New instrument extends LIGO’s reach
Technology 'squeezes' out quantum noise so more gravitational wave signals can be detectedCredit: Image: Maggie Tse Just a year ago, ...
Swiss space telescope CHEOPS: Rocket launch set for December 17, 2019
Credit: ESA / ATG medialab CHEOPS (short for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) consists of a space telescope developed and assembled by ...
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